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Daily Archives: January 11, 2012

As late as 1995, no one knew where Spectacled Eiders wintered. Despite alarming declines in the Alaska populations, and considerable research, no one really knew where they went. In the summer of 1995, a few Alaska birds were fitted with satellite tracking transmitters. Telemetry from monitoring satellites showed the birds were in the frozen Bering…